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Finding Little Moments of Me Time During the Summer Holidays (Without Feeling Guilty)

The summer holidays arrive with so much promise. Long, lazy mornings. Adventures together. Ice creams in the sunshine. Bare feet in the garden. Memories waiting to be made. And they...

30 Easy Ways to Entertain Your Children at Home This Summer

Long summer days have a lovely way of stretching out in front of us… until about 10am, when someone announces they’re bored. The good news is that entertaining children doesn’t...

Spring Reset Without the Pressure: Creating a Calm, Lived-In Home

Spring has a way of making everything feel like it should be renewed, reorganised, refreshed, perfected. There’s this subtle pressure that creeps in with the lighter mornings and longer days,...

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Moving Out of Winter Gently: Rebuilding Energy Without Overwhelm

Spring is in full bloom here in the UK. My garden is coming alive after a long winter, the birds are busy, the sun is shining, and there is an...

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Love Beyond Romance: Nurturing Yourself & Your Relationships This Season

When we talk about love, the focus so often narrows to romance. Partnership. Marriage. Relationships defined by coupledom. The cultural story tends to tell us that love has one central...

Gentle Intentions for the Year Ahead (Without Overhauling Your Life)

There’s something about the start of a new year that makes us feel like we should be making big declarations. Choosing words. Setting goals. Mapping out plans that stretch far...

Releasing the Pressure of New Year, New You

Every January, it arrives like clockwork. The quiet days between Christmas and New Year barely have time to settle before the noise begins again. Promises of reinvention. Before-and-after stories. Productivity...

Welcoming the Quiet of January: Letting the Year Begin Softly

January often arrives with a strange kind of pressure. Before the decorations are fully packed away and before our bodies have quite caught up with the calendar, we’re invited to...

What if all I want is a small, slow, simple life? What if I am most happy in the space of inbetween? Where calm lives. Krista O’Reilly Davi-Digui For the...

How to simplify and slow down

Last week’s ‘Do Nothing Day‘ showed me that I’ve been taking on too much, expecting too much of myself, forgetting what is really important and been neglecting self care. Having...

Finding pockets of quiet in the everyday

Lately, I’ve been making a conscious effort to slow down. To not rush through the days, but to take my time, to savour the little moments, to create pockets of...

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